Environment

Waitrose is moving to multicoloured recycled trays for its ready meals as it bids to eliminate its use of unrecyclable black plastic by the end of the year. The colour of the new trays will vary depending on the recycled plastic – predominantly mixed PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles and other containers – that has gone into producing them. Waitrose & Partners said the new packaging is unlikely to be the same colour twice, and will range from pink and red...

Leadhills Estate says it has reported suspicious activity to police.

A Labour government will disclose for the first time the “true impact” on the climate of Britain’s carbon emissions, Jeremy Corbyn is to warn. The Labour leader will say that, currently, only greenhouse gases generated by goods and services produced within the UK are measured. But, while these have been coming down, this ignores the emissions generated from goods imported into the country, which have “barely changed” in 20 years. The result, he argues, is that the UK is effectively...

Scientists were studying reefs in the British Indian Ocean Territory before and after two ocean heatwaves.

Pairing up cities can help people visualise the impacts of climate change, such as the risk of the kind of severe drought that hit Barcelona in 2008.

Indonesia is sending dozens of containers of waste back to Western nations after finding it was contaminated with used nappies, plastic and other materials, adding to a growing backlash in Southeast Asia against being a dumping ground for the developed world’s rubbish. The country’s directorate general of customs said Tuesday that 49 containers in Batam port near Singapore will be returned to Australia, the US, France, Germany and Hong Kong. Indonesian custom officers show off the front of a foreign...

Nine deer at a famed park in western Japan have died recently after swallowing plastic bags. Nara Park has more than 1,000 deer and tourists can feed them special sugar-free crackers sold in shops nearby. The crackers do not come in plastic bags but people still carry them. A veterinarian said the deer may associate the plastic with food. The Nara Deer Preservation Foundation said nine of the 14 deer that have died since March had plastic in their stomachs....

"With only one exception, none of the companies are performing at the level we wish to see, the country expects and the environment needs," said the Environment Agency.

The Government has a “ramshackle, Dad’s Army” approach to making sure England can cope with the impacts of rising temperatures, its climate advisers warn. And UK action to slash the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change is lagging far behind what is needed, even before the Government set a tougher new target to cut pollution to zero overall by 2050. In its annual progress report to Parliament, the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the Government had to show...